New approaches to assessing knowledge, skills, and abilities are emerging to improve both teaching and learning and to help students prepare for success in the 21st-century workforce and as global citizens. This paper explores how the succesful Cisco Networking Academy program has embraced some of the latest advances in technology to address these issues.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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May 15, 2012Writing for the Huffington Post, U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (Oakland, California) thoughtfully discusses the need for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to prepare today’s students for highly skilled career positions. Lee notes that private-public collaboration can be a key factor to STEM education, calling on industry to “explore its role in providing paid internships, curriculum development, teacher training, and classroom presentations–as well as funding facilities.” Lee also points…
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May 14, 2012This post from the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development discusses how a successful program known as Reach for the Sky brought culturally relevant STEM education to American Indian students. As the authors note, integrating STEM culturally and socially means that science is present as an integral part of the students’ culture, not as something that done to a community. “Integrating STEM helps classrooms become less formal and more…
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May 11, 2012A representative sample of 122,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, which is designed to measure students’ knowledge and abilities in the areas of physical science, life science, and Earth and space sciences. Results from the 2011 assessment are available for public and private school students in the nation and for public school students in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Department…
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April 12, 2012Developed through a year-long collaborative process, this Partnership for 21st-Century Skills (P21) map reflects the collective effort of mathematics professors, teachers and thought leaders and illustrates the integration of math and 21st-century skills. It will provide educators, administrators, and policy makers with concrete examples of how 21st-century skills can be integrated into core subjects, and how other subject areas can link successfully with mathematics. If you found this resource…
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March 29, 2012The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) is an annual sample survey that monitors national performance in literacy and numeracy in alternate years. The 2011 survey focused on numeracy. Approximately 13,000 pupils in total participated from across the three stages being assessed ( P4, P7 and S2). According to the survey, approximately 76% of P4 pupils were performing well or very well in numeracy at first level; at P7, about 72% at…
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March 21, 2012Drawing on a literature and program review, analysis of publicly available data, and consultations with experts in the field, this Institute for Women’s Policy Research (U.S.) report examines opportunities for women and student parents to pursue and succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at community colleges. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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February 9, 2012In this comprehensive book, author Ferdi Serim offers a practical pathway for developing 21st-century skills while simultaneously strengthening content-area learning. Digital Learning contains a wealth of research-based practices to integrate the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for both students and teachers. Each of the suggested project-based learning examples (in language arts, mathematics, science, and geography) can be used successfully as stand-alone units, but are…
